Demand & Supply Planning

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Demand and Supply Planning Solutions

Plan without the overhead. Ensure no downtime in decision-making—with the market-leading, all-in-one solution for supply chain planning.

Meet demand with machine-speed decisioning

Insight-infused planning allows you to meet demand, minimize excess and maximize turnover while cognitively adapting to changing market conditions.
Features & Capabilities

Plan demand, supply and inventory with one, cognitive planning solution

Conversational AI that spots and fixes issues faster

Scan for broken bills of materials, sourcing issues, unmet demand, and fill-rate risks with Inventory Ops Agent, which combines conversational AI with powerful data quality and plan analysis—so planners can trust their data, resolve issues faster, and focus on the SKUs and orders that matter most.

Achieve precise ML-driven forecasts that delivers on customer service and inventory turns

Increase forecasting confidence with explainability, understand the underlying causal factors of demand, and leverage the combined power of statistical methods, ML and AI for precise and transparent demand sensing and planning.

Boost productivity, optimize outcomes and planner efficiency across supply planning

Create shared plans to optimize utilization rates from sourcing through distribution that maximizes inventory turnover and exceeds customer service levels. Supply accurately against demand and optimally plan for inventory at every level.

Not too much or too little, inventory that’s just right

Ensure product availability, reduce excess stock, and set optimal inventory across every node by dynamically segmenting and strategically staging inventory to balance service levels, demand variability, and supply constraints.

Streamline and automate supply chain planning workflows

Reduce errors and cycle times, improve reliability, and enable faster execution at scale. We help you streamline and automate complex supply chain workflows across demand, supply, and inventory so that you can guide planners through consistent, best-practice processes.

Solve exceptions with holistic insights and actions

Move faster with a complete view of your operations, powered by best-in-class predictive insights and connected collaboration. Intelligent planner workflows provide consolidated actions to recommend resolutions, resolve issues and achieve critical KPIs, at a global scale.

Simulate the supply chain for the most adaptable, anti-fragile plans for profitable outcomes

Navigate global volatility by assessing your options in real time with omnipresent, boundaryless scenario analysis and planning insights. We enable you to mix and match factors and answer every what-if questions

Extend planning and analysis to drive higher quality plans across the network and the globe

Connect transportation and warehouse systems, sustainability and your multi-tier, multi-enterprise supply chain network for no downtime decision making. Anticipate and respond like never before with seamless data and workflows between planning and execution.
Benefits

Deliver best in class autonomous planning with Blue Yonder Demand and Supply Planning

Superior decision-making speed and quality

Get faster planning cycles, higher plan accuracy and improved service levels—all while reducing bias and enabling confident, data-backed decisions. Empower planners to respond rapidly to market changes with AI-driven insights, automated workflows and automations that eliminate manual bottlenecks.

Extend visibility and collaboration to align plans

Achieve seamless alignment across demand, supply and inventory planning by breaking down the silos and enabling real-time collaboration across the enterprise and network. Align supply chain plans with corporate objectives, reduce inefficiencies and accelerate disruption response agility.

Reduce costs, waste and missed opportunities

Reduces excess stock, prevents stockouts and lowers logistics and execution expenses—empowering you to capture revenue and sustain profitability, even in volatile market conditions. Unify demand forecasts, supply constraints and inventory strategies to optimize resources and eliminate waste. 

Be bold. Be brave. Unlock your full potential with Blue Yonder

Supply Chain Executive

Gain clarity without the load screen, you’ll have instant visibility over the supply chain to empower planner to make smarter decisions.

Identify and act of issues earlier

Diagnose critical issues before they affect customers, with scenario planning you’ll be able to predict what comes next. Leverage a real-time view of inbound and outbound flows

Improve adaptability and resiliency for anti-fragility

Empower planners and operators to use agentic root-cause analysis to dynamically recommend and adjust supply, demand and inventory across the network 

Productivity and agility like never before

Adapt and thrive by developing range-based probabilistic plans to handle any supply chain disruption— across demand, supply and inventory

Success stories in Demand and Supply Planning

  • Lenovo operates 30 manufacturing facilities, serves customers in 180 markets, and makes an astounding three devices every second. Not only is Lenovo’s product line broad and complex, but its production model is equally complex, based on both build-to-plan and configure-to-order. Jack Fiedler, VP of Digital Transformation for the Global Supply Chain at Lenovo, discusses how Blue Yonder solutions help ensure the right products are in the right place, leading to faster turns, higher service levels and reduced costs.

  • After experiencing a rapid growth in e-commerce, requiring delivery to customer homes and retail locations, City Plumbing needed to find a way to optimize their legacy warehouse systems. Blue Yonder's Warehouse Management System enabled them to enhance their visibility and responsiveness, resulting in a 20% reduction in inbound receiving time, improved process accuracy and efficiency, and higher levels of service and profitability.

  • For UK-based grocery retailer Morrisons, serving its more than 11 million customers starts with making sure the right products are in the right place. Discover how Blue Yonder helped the organization increase shelf availability of over 29,000 SKUs in 130 categories across its 500 stores.

  • Asda is one of Britain’s leading retailers with a unique position in the market. In this “Supply Chain’s Digital Disruptors” Blue Yonder Live session, Asda’s CIO, Carl Dawson speaks with Blue Yonder’s CRO Corey Tollefson to discuss how Asda is transforming its supply chain with the help of Blue Yonder

    Adored by brands, recognized by analysts

    Read the Nucleus 2025 SCP Technology Value Matrix report to learn why Blue Yonder was named a Leader among 21 supply chain planning vendors
    Blue Yonder named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Supply Chain Planning Solutions: Discrete Industries

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